CCR revival?

[Bipolarcy]

The answer is simple. The 60's is the greatest music decade ever.

Like I said, I visit iTunes regularly and this is the first time I've ever seen more than one or two older recordings on the charts and they are usually tied to a recently released movie. Your "simple" theory doesn't explain why four CCR tunes and three Creed tunes are listed in the top 100. I suspect some newbs mistook Creed for CREEDence Clearwater Revivial and downloaded those by mistake.

 

[matclone]

One of my least-favorite covers of all-time.

CCR isn't a band you can cover. Period.

Bad timing for your opinion.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

Bad timing for your opinion.

Yeah, I just saw that. But I agree with him...never really liked her version.

 

[KnappShack]

As an 80s kid who grew up listening to 60s and 70s music (like we all did) CCR is one of the all timers. Lookin Out My Backdoor and Up Around The Bend are two of my other favorites. CCR is the epitome of “classic rock.”

While we’re on the subject I put The Doors in the same category. Their songs may not get the same amount of play as CCR does today but man do they have a lot of good songs. Fun tunes like Peace Frog and LA Woman, and several hypnotic songs like Soul Kitchen, When the Music’s Over, Spanish Caravan, Riders on the Storm, The Wasp…..my God they were good. I was born in 69 and would give up a year of my life to see a Doors concert at that time.

Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain
And the end is always near

 

[clonehome]

Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I got myself a beer
Well, I woke up this mornin'
And I got myself a beer
The future's uncertain
And the end is always near

Roadhouse Blues is another great song

 

[Sigmapolis]

Bad timing for your opinion.

Tina Turner was a legendary performer with all sorts of great songs across plenty of eras of music history and had a fascinating life story of coming from nothin' to become... well, Tina Turner.

RIP

But that doesn't change the CCR original "Proud Mary" is vastly superior to hers.

I think the more interesting timing is my wife and I went to the Tina musical at the Performing Arts Center in Des Moines last Thursday. We didn't know the subject would be gone a week later.

Roadhouse Blues is another great song

Great rocker. Great tune. "Roadhouse Blues" isn't particularly representative of their sound, though.

The Doors had some interesting lyrics but Morrison was always... kind of weird and insular and esoteric as a lyricist. Fogerty was a troubadour of the working class during a time of great social and political upheaval and wrote songs that spoke to that ("Fortunate Son" "Wrote a Song for Everyone" "Bad Moon Rising" "Don't Look Now" "It Came Out of the Sky") in such a subtle, timeless manner they'll work forever.

The Doors are just weird in comparison. They're also not nearly as good of instrumentalists as CCR and their ensemble playing isn't nearly as tight (to be fair, I don't think there's a rock group in history that played "tighter" as a group than CCR). I've always thought they would have benefited from having a real bassist, too, which they did in studio for "Roadhouse Blues" when they brought in an old blues warhorse for the song. It gave their sound a rawness and a rockin'-ness to it that many of their tracks simply lack